This page lists the committees within the CS department, along with their duties and the members for the current 2006-2007 academic year.

ADMISSIONS

Each grad student performs three main tasks in support of the admissions process, providing relevant feedback from each:

review applications

participate in face-to-face interviews during applicant weekend

participate in phone interviews with foreign candidates.

This committee is open to students who have completed their first year. It requires very little to none of your time in the fall, but is very time-consuming in the spring.
Members of this committee are not listed here.

COMPREHENSIVES

Each grad student reviews the comprehensive questions from multiple areas and provides feedback on difficulty and relevance. This committee is available to anyone who has passed all of their comprehensive exams.

GOG REPRESENTATIVE

GRADUATE REPRESENTATIVE

Acts as a liason between the graduate students and faculty. Attends faculty meetings and provides relevant feedback to graduate students. This is an elected position, the election for which takes place at the end of the summer. Any student who has successfully defended their thesis proposal is eligible to be the graduate representative.

Attend lab committee meetings and provide feedback to student body. Act as liaison to staff for grad concerns regarding hardware/software.
Oversee the use of the shared /usr/grads/ file space and policies for its use.

PHOTO BOARD/PUBLICITY

Place pictures of new students/faculty/staff on the photo board, and remove photos of people who are no longer part of the department. This is basically a one-time job which should be completed as early as possible in the fall semester, preferably by the time the state of the department talk is given. It should take no more than a few hours to complete.

CLEANUP: KITCHEN

General maintenance of kitchen appearance: including but not limited to periodically cleaning the counters and microwave ovens. The custodial staff only cleans the floors and empties the trash, so anything else you see you should clean. Its especially important to clean before and after faculty/student candidate visits.